By Thomas Thompson. “The Ultimate Tragedy Between One Decent Man and the Son He Loved” — Richie Diener Jr., shot by his father across the divide of drugs and the generation gap. Later became a TV movie starring Robby Benson.
This hardcover looks rough, as you can see: cracks and splits to the jacket, where isn’t repaired with scotch tape, which is…almost everywhere; evidence that library appurtenances were ripped off the spine and the flyleaf; page toning and a big remainder mark. But it IS clean inside, only a slight lean to the spine, no dog-ears, pages snug. A fine reading copy of a relative rarity, from a 20th-century genre legend.